Last week, Food Safety Officers in Coimbatore found that almost half of the ghee samples they collected were ‘substandard’. Most samples of ghee did not even provide the FSSAI mandatory nutritional value on their product. Some of the labels on the ‘substandard’ ghee did mention that it was not fit for consumption. However, the font […]
Food Safety Officers Keeping Strict Vigil to Check Adulteration
The festive season has already begun and with ‘Diwali’ on the threshold food safety officers are leaving no stone unturned to prevent food adulteration. They are keeping a strict watch on sweet and food outlets. There have also been crackdowns on mawa manufacturers in almost all states and about 66 samples of mawa were collected […]
What Is Food Adulteration?
Food adulteration is the process in which the quality of food is lowered either by the addition of inferior quality material or by extraction of valuable ingredient. It not only includes the intentional addition or substitution of the substances but biological and chemical contamination during the period of growth, storage, processing, transport and distribution of […]